Prevalence Of Depression And Its Co- Morbidity With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder In a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital: a Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

This research examines depression occurrence alongside Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) situations among adult tertiary care teaching hospital patients from Rahim Yar Khan Pakistan. This study utilizes the Urdu versions of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) for standardized assessment of depression frequencies and their relations to OCD subtypes and severity levels as well as demographic characteristics. The researchers applied non-probability consecutive sampling to select 145 patients who had received OCD diagnosis. This study indicates that OCD patients demonstrate substantial depression rates in conjunction with their obsessive-compulsive disorder which demonstrates marked similarity between these conditions. The proportion of depressed patients differed across gender segments and OCD symptom severity levels and duration length because women and patients with severe OCD experienced elevated depression numbers. The research demonstrates that OCD patients should undergo routine depression assessments while integrated treatments emerge as critical to handle concurrent OCD and depressive symptoms. The research results support extensive mental health planning that handles both depression alongside OCD in clinical treatment facilities particularly operating within limited resource settings such as Pakistan.

Keywords.Keywords: Depression, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Co-morbidity, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)